- The title track, 'Satellites', is a gorgeous piece of house music that sits somewhere between Italo, cosmic disco and the soundtrack to a GCSE science programme. Long, distant synths swoop over bars and bars of a cybernetic groove before a hypnotic, synthetic upward scale comes in. The beat is tough enough to make it dancey, but it remains slightly remote and hypnotic. This would work really well in a club sandwiched between...oh hell, anything really.
'Delta' is on a similar tip to 'Satellites' but more spaced out. Again, it's structured around a few simple elements that repeat over beats that would fit right in to a club in Genoa in 1983. But it lacks the urgency of 'Satellites' and relies too much on the multiple trippy effects to keep you interested, and doesn't quite pull it off. For me, it strays too close to the kind of music you get in those stalls at festivals where they put goggles with flashing lights over your eyes to instigate a 'mind experience'.
The final track, 'Jupiter', however, is about as lush as it gets. It's meditative, cute and uplifting in a warm cup of tea and a biscuit way. 'Jupiter' has a cascade of dubbed out, delayed steel drums which tumble over a one and two note melody that sounds like a phone line purring contentedly. There's also all kinds of eccentric clicks and chirps thrown in over the simple beat which all sound liquidy, as if you're hearing it through water.
TracklistA Satellites
B Delta
B2 Jupiter